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Southpaugh posted:Is the UKMT in freefall? have avoided it since the Roni got going. Ireland is accused of antisemitism anyway due to wide spread support for Palestine. UKMT has had a lot of interesting stuff happen in it post Covid. What I found most interesting was because the UK's health measures were way behind Ireland, the social side of things was like watching a news report from two weeks in the past but in real time. So while we had panic buying and shortages happen in our shops when the lockdown was first announced on the 12th/13th of March, you got to see people experiencing it in that thread near the end of March. Currently because the thread is very pro socialist and pro Labour the last few days have been focused on Stammer's election to Leadership and now about the leaked report within the Labour party. Also personally whenever they talk about someone "catching the 'Rona" I always read it as someone "catching the "Roni." And I get this image of a viral outbreak of moustaches. As for Palestinian, that is done as part of this whole plot to conflate anyone who is Anti-Israel as being Anti-Semitic. And while I am sure all Anti-Semite are Anti-Israel, there are definitely people who are against the government of Israel and their actions without being Anti-Semitic.
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The Question IRL posted:And while I am sure all Anti-Semite are Anti-Israel. ETA:  simultaneous posting.VVVV
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Apr 14, 2020 10:20
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The Question IRL posted:And while I am sure all Anti-Semite are Anti-Israel, there are definitely people who are against the government of Israel and their actions without being Anti-Semitic. You'd think so but there is a particular weird brand of antisemitism that is pro israel because they think it fulfils biblical prophecy and while judaism is clearly wrong and inferior it's necessary to bring about the rapture. It's very visble in the Left Behind movies and books. E: beaten!
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Nah, there's quite a few antisemites who are pro-Israel, either because they're wingnut religious right who believe that Israel has to exist so that Armageddon can happen, or the more straightforward reason that it's a good place to send the Jews so that they don't have to live near them. Or they're just generally racist but hate Muslims slightly more than Jews. e: ^^^ also these two posts
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Apr 14, 2020 10:21
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irlZaphod posted:It's scary how many people have no cop-on or seemingly just don't give a poo poo. Stupid seems to be running amok throughout my family - my 76 year old father is is a giant sulk because no-one is keen on going to the multiple specific shops he prefers to get the oh so special bread and clementines he wants. He's actually threatening to go himself if no one else is willing to go. I have repeatedly offered to get the equivalents in the supermarket as part of one large household shop, as recommended by the HSE but that's not good enough. It's just a loving loaf of bland sourdough but it's HIS BREAD He's behaving as though the whole pandemic thing is something I made up to inconvenience him.
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Apr 14, 2020 11:57
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There's also the racists who think Israel is a good example of an ethnostate.
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Apr 14, 2020 12:10
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Mary Lou McDonald had coronavirus. She just got the results back from a test she did 2 and a half weeks ago. Wonder how Blueshirts can say we are testing on par with South Korea, when their turnaround on results is 6 hours from the samples arriving at a lab.
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Pookah posted:Stupid seems to be running amok throughout my family - my 76 year old father is is a giant sulk because no-one is keen on going to the multiple specific shops he prefers to get the oh so special bread and clementines he wants. He's actually threatening to go himself if no one else is willing to go. My mother was like this at the start. Shes in her 70s and all her life has been that stereotype irish mother shopper where she would go around 30 shops for 5 hours while not buying anything, only to return to the first shop to get the first item she looked at. She lives with my brother and he's been telling me she was wrecking his head with 'Sure the virus wont be in Argos or Aldi. Ill wear my wool gloves. Ill be only 5 minutes.' 5 minutes mum time is 2 hour real time usually. Then the stories started about how you will die alone and buried with no fanfare, she has wised upto not going out.
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Apr 14, 2020 13:27
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happyhippy posted:My mother was like this at the start.  that would be the tactic of very last resort -if I told him that he'd probably turn it around like I was hoping that he'd catch it and end up dying all alone. He can be extraordinarily passive-aggressive. Anyway, I went to lidl and got a fairly big shop including a fancy bakery loaf, so hopefully that'll satisfy him for the time being. Ty for sharing, it's a weird relief to hear about other people's infuriating families  I heard that mary-lou wasn't feeling too bad so I though that might be why her test wasn't as urgent as it might otherwise have been, but apparently she ended up with pleurisy?
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Apr 14, 2020 14:11
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My dad started out saying sure he lived long enough if he gets it. I told him to gently caress off and that he wouldn't be just killing himself, he'd be killing my mam too. That shut him up but once people get to a certain state it just gets depressing.
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One of my co-workers is getting very antsy about his "fundamental rights being violated" by being asked to stay home. Which is... yeah.
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Apr 14, 2020 15:26
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They do understand that it's not like they're asking them to never leave their house again, right. Ask them if they would be happy with their trip outside leading to them killing someone.
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Apr 14, 2020 15:39
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They're prone to conspiracy theories so TBH I don't think they do understand that.
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Apr 14, 2020 15:59
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Arquinsiel posted:One of my co-workers is getting very antsy about his "fundamental rights being violated" by being asked to stay home. Which is... yeah. There is a lot of this going around at the moment, usually with the 5G conspiracy shite. The wonderful age of information!
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Apr 14, 2020 19:10
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Blut posted:Thats happening anywhere the need for resources outstrips supply - Lombardy etc. This is such a universal dilemma that we actually have a 3700 year old triage checklist from bronze age Egypt. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2989268/
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shame on an IGA posted:This is such a universal dilemma that we actually have a 3700 year old triage checklist from bronze age Egypt. Thats a great read, thanks.
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Apr 15, 2020 20:52
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I see our Gemma is trying to get people killed in the High Court
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Shoehead posted:I see our Gemma is trying to get people killed in the High Court She and John Waters are representing themselves. I think that says everything you need to know about the strength of their case and the willingness of lawyers to take on said cases even with plaintiffs like these who are likely to have real money to pay them.
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The first article I found neglected to provide any context for who John Waters is so I was very confused for a while why the guy who made Pink Flamingos was apparently trying to fight the coronavirus lockdown in Ireland.
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Apr 15, 2020 22:08
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How can you not know who John Waters is? Dude is constantly poo poo in public.
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Apr 15, 2020 22:51
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He may be pretty confined to Ireland and I am a perfidious tan. He definitely looks like he's an Interesting person from looking at google 
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Apr 15, 2020 23:06
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Yeah hes just wing nut who has (had?) a newspaper column, has a kid with sinead o connor? Weirdo catholic guy.
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Apr 15, 2020 23:08
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 An escalating record of my extreme Normalcy.
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Apr 15, 2020 23:13
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I was sitting in the Grand Social with an internet friend who had just moved to Dublin a couple of years back and said friend goes "uh... did a homeless person just walk in and start staring at everyone?" So I look over my shoulder and see who it is and say "no, that's this lad here" and tap the event guide on the table. John Waters in for a reading of his poetry... just glaring angrily around the bar at people 
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Apr 15, 2020 23:16
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Glaring angrily around the place is what you do when you're a laughing stock.
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Apr 16, 2020 11:55
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This was before the marriage referendum and all, so he just had Pantigate under his belt as a stupid thing he was involved in that made everyone hate him at that point.
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Arquinsiel posted:This was before the marriage referendum and all, so he just had Pantigate under his belt as a stupid thing he was involved in that made everyone hate him at that point. Older heads hate him for his consistent bad takes on everything, like being pro-Iraq War for some reason, and just the awful edgily contrarian shite he's published for 30+ years
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Personally hated him since junior cert english when the teacher would trot out himself and kevin myers as examples of good writing lmao
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https://twitter.com/oconnellhugh/status/1250716565512880128?s=19 No Ard Fheis thanks to the Rona and no replacement postal ballot to confirm coalition - I do wonder if this could lead to a Haughey-esque challenger building support among the cumman for a heave
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Well anyone who thinks that Kevin Myers is a good writer has questionable taste in English. And is probably a misogynist too. The mention of Pantygate reminded me of RTE's cowardly behaviour. (Immediately issued an apology and paid large sums of money to the complainants.) I remember from talking to a number of barristers at the time that they said RTE shouldn't have folded, and they'd have a good case to just fight the case. In fact some of them said that they would probably have represented RTE for free just to have the excuse to cross examine Waters or any of the people from the Iona Institute.
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so now FF and FG are going to be fighting to the death in government and SF is going to be licking its lips from all the blood in the water i take it? whoever ends up as senior partner seems as though they'll pretty much just murder the other party
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God I'd forgotten about Kevin Myers, what an awful shitbag.
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V. Illych L. posted:so now FF and FG are going to be fighting to the death in government and SF is going to be licking its lips from all the blood in the water i take it? Word is that there is no senior partner and there will be a rotating premiership of equals, some indication the greens may be sniffing around also https://twitter.com/Jennifer_Bray/status/1250765216117411842?s=19 https://twitter.com/MichealLehane/status/1250762188974850050?s=19 And might as well throw the last poll performed in as well as FG definately got a rallying around the national interest covid bump https://twitter.com/IrelandElects/status/1244167664185966593?s=19 kustomkarkommando fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Apr 16, 2020 |
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kustomkarkommando posted:https://twitter.com/oconnellhugh/status/1250716565512880128?s=19 A postal vote would be incredibly easy to organize if Martin actually wanted to. FF have what, about 20,000 party members? Millions of postal ballots at a time are regularly cast all around the world for elections these days, 20k wouldn't be a remotely difficult logistical proposition. If Martin tries to force through a contentious FG coalition as a fait accompli, without giving the membership any say, I wouldn’t be surprised to see an O'Cuiv-heave. Or maybe even a group of the more Republican FFers splinter off under O’Cuiv. If the Greens don't bite on the government, then if O'Cuiv got even 6-7 FFers to leave with him then any potential FF/FG/IND government wouldn't have a majority.
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The Question IRL posted:Well anyone who thinks that Kevin Myers is a good writer has questionable taste in English. And is probably a misogynist too. He was also the religion teacher, so. This political fuckacting by FG/FF is going to blow up in their faces. The likes of O'Cuiv or Michael Ring aren't diehard neoliberals like the Leo and Michael. Plenty of backbenchers won't be happy about this.
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https://www.gov.ie/en/news/041fd1-update-on-payments-awarded-for-covid-19-pandemic-unemployment-paymen/quote:“Between our Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment, those on the Live Register and workers who are benefitting from the wage subsidy scheme, over a million people are receiving some sort of state income support – a situation unparalleled in our nation’s history. "Over a million" adults, out of our working population of 2.3 million, are now receiving unemployment payments apparently. Thats an unemployment rate of 43%. And going up by over 2% a week. This is going to be...bad.
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How so? Yes that’s a lot of people not working, but it’s for a good reason.
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How is 43% unemployment, and rapidly increasing, bad? A huge chunk of those people aren't going to walk back into a job, and a 'normal' economy as it was in February, on May 5th. This could result in another decade of austerity if it gets much worse.
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